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PATENTBD JAN. 2.7, 1903.

R. G. RUSSELL.

` INDEX. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 8, 1901,

N0 MODEL.

lllrrrrnn ROBERT C. RUSSELL,

OF IVILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- lNDEX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,143, dated January27, 1903. Application filed February 8, 1901. Serial No. 46,547. (Nomodel.)

T all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT C. RUSSELL, a resident of Williamsport, inthecounty of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Indexes; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainstoro make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved index, the object of the inventionbeing to provide a combined grantee and grantors indexin which willappear the names of both, and the charr5 acter of the party whose nameis indexed wil be readily understood by the index itself.

A further object is to provide a single index in which any and alltransactions or transfers concerning property can be traced 2o by theknowledge of the name of any party to any transaction concerning theproperty.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novelarrangements of the name and other columns and identifying data to thetransactions, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointedout in the claims.

The accompanying drawing is a face view of two pages of an open bookillustrating my 3o .improvements i The column l on the left of the sheetis devoted to an explanation of the index for tinding any ,uname andrefers to the page on which the name will be found and is entitled atthe head of the column Index The next column 2 is designated as Locationand is devoted to describing the location of the property transferred.The next three columns are entitled Date of deed, and the 4o captions ofthe several columns are Year, Day, and Illonth, and the date of the deedis recorded in these columns. The next two columns are entitled Whererecorded, and the individual columns Page and Volume The next column 3is entitled Names of grantors, in which appear the names of grantors ofthe property described, and the instrument in which the parties in thiscolumn appear as grantors is traceable 5o by the preceding columns. Acolumn 4 is then left blank to permit the folding of the sheet forbinding. The next column is entitled Characteristics as grantee and refers to the character of the party as grantee whose name appears in thenext column 5, which latter is entitled Look in this column for the nameyou are searching and contains the names of all parties to thetransactions indexed according to the explanation in the first column atthe left hand of the sheet. 6o The next column is entitledCharacteristics as grantor and refers to the character of the partywhose name appears in the preceding column when he transfers theproperty to the party or parties appearing in the next column 6, whichis entitled Names of grantees, and in this column the names of allparties appear to whom the parties in column 5 assign. The next twocolumns are headed Where recorded, and the separate col- 7o umns Volumeand Page to designate where to iind the recorded instrument in whichlthe party in the preceding column 6 appears as grantee and the party inthe column 5 as grantor. The next three columns 75 are under the captionDate of deed, and Month, Day, Year, and give the date of thelast-mentioned transfer, and the last column 7 is entitled Location anddesignates the location of the property transferred. 8o

The particular arrangement of the several columns can be varied Without.departing from my invention, the only essential arrangement being thatthe column 5, in which appear the names of both grantors and grantees,should be between the columns 8 and 6.

To find all record of any property, it is simply necessary to know thename of any party to any transaction-"as, for instance, we know thatJames Acroyd at one time owned a cer- 9o tain piece of ground. We takethe index book A andlook in the index at the left-hand side of any sheetfor the first letter of the Christian name, which is J, and in the samewe find the first two letters of the last name, Ac, which refers us tothe proper page to turn. Here we look downV the column 5 until the nameis reached, and the names on the same line in the column 3 willdesignate the grautors names from Whom James Acroyd rco derived title,the columns to the left giving all necessary information for finding therecorded instruments to such transfers, and to the right of column 5 Wewill find the names of the grantees to Whom James Acroyd transferred theproperty and all necessary information for finding the recordedinstruments.

It will thus be seen that with my improved index the name of any partywho has ever held an interest in property will appear in the column 5,and hence this index will do away with the necessity for separateindexes for grantees and grantors, thus saving a great amount of timeand labor in preparing the indexes and in title-searching.

The columns marked Characteristics as grantee and Characteristics asgrantor are important features of my invention. As before explained, allnames, whether grantor or grantee, are placed in the column 5, markedThe name you are searching. The columns marked Characteristics asgrantee and Characteristics as grantor 7 are to receive data explainingthe characters of the parties whose names appear inthe column 5. Thename John G. Adams appears in column 5, and he appears as grantee ofSamuel Brown and his wife to property located in Loyalsock township.John G. Adams is also grantee of property located in Brown township fromJacob Smith; but in this transaction John G. Adams appears as executor.In the column Characteristics as grantee7 the entry from Brown to Adamsis blank; but the abbreviation Exin appears in that column from Smith toAdams. Without the column Characteristics as grantee the name John G.Adams would have to be written twice in order to show that one transferwas to him personally, while heI was acting as executor in the other.Using the name John G. Adams as grantor in the column 5 he transfers assheriff the piece of property to Villiam King located in Limestonetownship and another by Adams to Samuel Smith in Loyalsock township, andthese facts are noted in the column marked Characteristics as grantor.This last transfer may be the same property sold to him by Samuel Brownin Loyalsock township and the title being in his own name.

In order to make a complete chain of title on the record, it must beindexed in his name as Admn when sold by administrator of his estate.This fact would be noted in the column marked Characteristics asgrantor. Thus in the column to the left of column 5 it is noted in whatcapacity the party entered in column 5 was granted, and in the column tothe right of column 5 will be noted the capacity as grantor of the partywhose name appears in column 5.

While my improved index is especially adapted for indexing recordedtransfers of real estate and patent rights, it is also equally adaptedfor any kind of transfers of property, and I do not wish to be limitedto any particular use, but consider myself at liberty to use it for anypurpose for which it may be applicable.

Various slight changes might be made in the general arrangement of thecolumns and the titles thereof Without departing from my invention, andI t-herefore do not wish to be limited to the precise printed 'and ruledsheet shown.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. An index for transfers of property, comprising a book, each page orsheet of which has a column designated to receive names of all partieswho have figured in transfers of property, said page or sheet having acolumn to the left of the rst-mentioned column designated to receive thenames of grantors Who have transferred property to the parties whosenames appear in the first-mentioned column, and said page or sheethaving a column to the right of the first-mentioned column designated toreceive names of grantees to whom the parties whose names appear in therstmentioned column have transferred property.

2. An index for transfers of property, comprising a book each page orsheet of which has a column designated to receive names of all partieswho have figured in transfers of property, said page or sheet having acolumn to the left of the first-mentioned column designated to receivethe names of grantors who have tran sferred property to the parti eswhose names appear in the first-mentioned column, and said page or sheethaving a column to the right of the firstementioned column disposed toreceive names of grantees to Whom the parties whose names appear in thefirst-mentioned column have transferred property, said page also havingcolumns designated to contain the dates and place of record of the deedsand the location of the property.

3. An index for transfers of property, comprising a book each page orsheet of which has a column designated to receive names of all partieswho have figured in transfers of property, said page or sheet having acolumn to the left of the first-mentioned column designated to receivethe names of grantors who have transferred property to the parties whosenames appear in the first-mentioned column, and said page or sheethaving a column to the right of the first-mentioned column designated toreceive names of grantees to Whom the parties whose names appear in thefirstmentioned column have transferred property, and an index or keysubstantially such as described, on each page or sheet of the book forlocating, in the book, the name of any party in the first-mentionedcolumn.

4:. An index for transfers of property comprising a book, each page orsheet of which has a column designated to receive names of all partieswho have figured in transfers of property, said page or sheet havingacolumn to the left of the first-mentioned column designated to receivethe names of grantors who have transferred property to the parties whosenames appear in the first-mentioned column,

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said page or sheet also having a column to i ties whose names appear inthe first-menthe right of the first-mentioned column destioned column.

ignated to receive the names of grantees to In testimony whereof I havesigned this whom the parties Whose names appear in the specification inthe presence of two subscrib- 5 first-mentioned column have transferreding Witnesses.

property, and said page or sheet also having columns to the right andleft respectively of the first-mentioned column and designatedWitnesses:

to receive data respectively, denoting the HARRY S. WELCH,

1o characteristics as grantor and grantee of par- S. W. FOSTER.

ROBERT C. RUSSELL.

